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Spending climbs, but wages don't

CNN/Money, by Chris Isidore Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 9/29/2012 4:50:32 PM Post Reply

NEW YORK -- Spending by consumers picked up in August, although people dipped into their savings to buy things, as growth in their paychecks did not keep pace. Spending increased 0.5% in the month, according to the Commerce Department report, up from a 0.4% increase in July. Spending by consumers accounts for nearly three-quarters of the nation's economic activity, so growth in spending an important driver of economic growth. But for the second straight month personal income grew by only 0.1%, as the continued weakness in the jobs market has kept wages in check.

Andrew Breitbart Honored
Posthumously With
William F. Buckley Award
For Media Excellence

Cybercast News Service, by Craig Banni Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 4:43:13 PM Post Reply

Last night, the Media Research Center honored the late Andrew Breitbart with the its sixth annual “William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence.” But, Andrew’s work in journalism wasn’t just excellent – it was fearless. This year, the award could’ve just as easily been called the “William F. Buckley Award for Media Courage.” Andrew went where few in the media dare go, publishing exposes about sex-selective abortions, the sexting scandal of then-Rep. Anthony Weiner, and the left-wing operative ACORN, as columnist Cal Thomas, who presented the posthumous award at the Media Research Center’s (MRC) annual gala, explained.

Bill Clinton lauds Italian
fitness equipment firm

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 4:39:21 PM Post Reply

Milan - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton lauded the Italian company Technogym for its cooperation with his foundation to promote health, diet and fitness programs in American schools. Clinton gave the keynote speech Saturday at the inauguration of the Technogym Village in the northern Emilia-Romagna region, the company's new headquarters. The Clinton Foundation has targeted childhood obesity among its programs to improve personal health, and Clinton said Technogym "has been a great partnership ... promoting health, diet and fitness programs for our kids, starting from the push to eliminate sugary drinks readily available in our schools to offering exercise programs."

Muslim girl must do
swim class - German court

South African Press Association, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 4:34:31 PM Post Reply

Berlin - A German court on Friday refused to allow a Muslim student to skip swimming lessons after she said she was uncomfortable being so close to bare-chested boys. The 12-year-old, originally from Morocco but going to school in the southern German city of Frankfurt, had refused to take part in swimming lessons and had been marked down accordingly. She filed to be given the right to skip the classes, her lawyer arguing that according to the Qu'ran, she was not only forbidden from showing herself to boys but also from seeing the topless boys. (Snip) It said in its

Sticky buns 'devastating'
for Swedish wild boar

The Local [Sweden], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 4:30:44 PM Post Reply

Swedish wildlife experts have warned that cinnamon buns used by hunters to tempt wild boar out of the woods could lead to a serious caries problem. "It is not at all good for the animal's health," said Anders Hallengren at Skåne county council to the local Skånska Dagbladet daily. The hunters in southern Sweden use bait to bring the animals out in the open and thus easier to target. The hunters are reported to favour using cinnamon buns and other baked goods as they are both tempting for the boar and are also cheap.

Slain Connecticut teen 'seemed
normal' before break-in horror

New York Post, by Laurel Babcock* Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 9/29/2012 4:29:55 PM Post Reply

The Connecticut teen gunned down by his own dad during a botched break-in was happily playing an online game with buddies just hours before his tragic death, friends told The Post yesterday. (Snip) Tyler’s biological mom, Tammy Binnette, 45, was in tears yesterday. “This is the second child I lost,” wailed Binnette, who in 1993 fell asleep behind the wheel of a car after smoking crack cocaine and slammed into a utility pole — killing her 21-month-old daughter, Mariah. Binnette’s extensive criminal history includes a prison stint for that fiery crash, which occurred when she was pregnant with Tyler’s older sister, Therese.

Phantom Savings

Washington Free Beacon, by Andrew Stiles Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 4:25:18 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama is repeating a debunked claim regarding his commitment to deficit reduction, one of the highest priority issues for voters this election cycle. In a campaign video unveiled Wednesday, the president called for a “new economic patriotism” and touted his “balanced plan to reduce our deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade.” The claim that Obama has a plan—in the form of his most recent budget proposal—to reduce the federal deficit by $4 trillion over 10 years has been a constant refrain from the president on the campaign trail, and has been echoed by his Democratic allies.

Democrats lay out second-term
wish list for President Obama

The Hill [Washington DC], by Mike Lillis Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/29/2012 4:19:18 PM Post Reply

The presidential contest is far from over, but House Democrats are already readying their legislative wish-lists in hopes that President Obama is reelected. The lawmakers are floating a broad array of issues they'd like Obama to tackle immediately in a second term, placing a focus on jobs and the economy, but also thorny discretionary issues like immigration, climate change, housing – even a return to healthcare reform. An Obama victory in November would lend the president a new fistful of political capital as he confronts Republican leaders over how to avoid

Abu Dhabi Media’s
Hollywood Propaganda

Frontpage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 4:16:04 PM Post Reply

As Heritage has pointed out, The Promised Land, the troubled piece of lefty Hollywood agitprop aimed at the domestic oil industry is actually financed by the international oil industry. (Something it has in common with B.O.) A new film starring Matt Damon presents American oil and natural gas producers as money-grubbing villains purportedly poisoning rural American towns. It is therefore of particular note that it is financed in part by the royal family of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates. This isn’t the first time that the UAE have dabbled in Anti-American Hollywood propaganda. While Imagenation Abu Dhabi does produce legitimate

White House Moves To
Head Off Sequester Layoffs

National Journal, by Sara Sorcher Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/29/2012 4:14:19 PM Post Reply

The White House moved to prevent defense and other government contractors from issuing mass layoff notices in anticipation of sequestration, even going so far to say that the contracting agencies would cover any potential litigation costs or employee compensation costs that could follow. Some defense companies—including Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems and EADS North America—have said they expect to send notices to their employees 60 days before sequestration takes effect to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires companies to give advance warning to workers deemed reasonably likely to lose their jobs

Grandma in the gutter: The 81-year-old
had to wait half an hour
after falling outside hospital as
ambulance dispatched*

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 4:14:17 PM Post Reply

An 81-year-old grandmother who fell outside a hospital had to lie in a gutter in the rain while an ambulance came from seven miles away. When it arrived 30 minutes later, paramedics merely drove Gladys Shepherd 300 yards round the corner to the hospital’s urgent care unit. (Snip) Heavily pregnant Mrs Woods could not lift her, and when she ran inside to get help, she was told no doctors were available and Mrs Shepherd would have to stay where she was until an ambulance arrived from Altham. She was told to ring the ambulance herself.

World View - Report: Libya Attack
a Preemptive Response to Planned
Assassination of Al-Qaeda Leader

Breitbart's Big Peace, by John J. Xenakis Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 4:01:16 PM Post Reply

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Debka: Benghazi murder of Chris Stevens was revenge for plot against al-Qaeda France's Hollande calls for immediate military action in Mali Aftermath of Libyan military action sees big increase in al-Qaeda activity in Africa Debka, which sometimes gets things wrong, is quoting its military intelligence sources as saying that the reason why the Obama administration is covering up the al-Qaeda links to the murder of American ambassador Chris Stevens on September 11 in Benghazi, Libya, was because the murder was an act of revenge for US-led plans to assassinate the terrorist Abdelmalek Droukdel, "Emir of

Where did the Mammoth U.S.
Budget Deficits Come From

Christian Science Monitor, by Peter Grier Original Article

Posted By: Momoftwinteens- 9/29/2012 3:55:33 PM Post Reply

What’s the cause of the federal government’s huge budget deficits? That’s a question that is harder to answer in the particular than you might think. The general problem is obvious: Uncle Sam has been spending more money than he takes in. The specific reasons as to why this state of affairs exists are a mix of human decisions, economic circumstance, and the cumulative effect of time.
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NJ School District Cuts Portions
for Students $3 Behind
on Lunch Payment

Breitbart's Big Government, by Education Action Group Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 3:53:03 PM Post Reply

Califon, N.J. It’s bad enough that school children across the nation are going hungry on the skimpy portions offered through the Michelle Obama lunch menu. At the Tewksbury school district in New Jersey, children who fall $3.10 behind on their food payments get one hard-boiled egg, a package of crackers and a carton of milk for lunch. The Tewksbury district consists of two schools, one for grades K-4 and one for grades 5-8. Lunches at the school cost $2.40 per day. That means children are only allowed to fall one day behind in their lunch payments before getting stuck with

Rosenberg: A Crucial Economic
Indicator Just Sank To
A Level That Coincides
With Recession 100% Of The Time

Business Insider, by Sam Ro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 3:43:08 PM Post Reply

Economists often note that durable goods orders is one of the more volatile economic indicators that we get every month. However, there wasn't much sugar-coating anyone could do to the Thursday's report that showed durable goods orders plunged 13 percent in August. Economists were looking for a 5.0 percent decline. (Snip) "History shows when the trend weakened to the level we see today, the economy was in recession 100% of the time," wrote Rosenberg. "So stick that in you pipe and smoke it!"

France Set to Ban Words “Mother”
and “Father” in Run-up
to Same-sex “Marriage”

New American, by Dave bohon Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 3:40:11 PM Post Reply

France is positioned to ban the words “mother” and “father” from legal documents under the country's plan to legalize homosexual “marriage” and give equal adoption rights to both traditional couples and same-sex partners. Under the proposal, which is being aggressively pushed forward by, among others, French president Francois Hollande, the term “parents” would replace “mother” and “father” in an identical marriage ceremony that will be used for both traditional and homosexual weddings. According to the UK's Christian Institute, a draft law set to be presented to Hollande's cabinet for approval in October will define marriage as the “union of two

Environmentalist Movie
Funded by Oil-Rich Royalty

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 3:38:23 PM Post Reply

Matt Damon turned to oil-rich Middle East royalty to finance his film attacking domestically produced natural gas. The environmentalist screed, Promised Land, received a chunk of its funding from the United Arab Emirates, an oil kingdom known for its lavish spending on man-made islands and the world’s tallest building, according to the Heritage Foundation. The creators of Promised Land have gone to absurd lengths to vilify oil and gas companies, as Scribe’s Michael Sandoval noted Wednesday. (Snip) An ever-growing market for domestic fracking threatens dependence on foreign oil from the likes of UAE and OPEC.

Biden Blames Bush
Administration for Deficit

ABC News, by Arlette Saenz Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 9/29/2012 3:37:49 PM Post Reply

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Vice President Joe Biden placed the blame for the ballooning deficit on the Bush administration today, arguing that the previous administration saddled the country with the burden of trillions of dollars in debt. (Snip) Earlier in the week, the Washington Post fact checked President Obama's claim that the Bush administration's policies accounted for 90 percent of the country's current deficit and rated the assertion as false, since the president also pushed spending increases and tax cuts that added to the deficit. Biden also claimed the Obama administration has proposed a plan

The Obama Administration’s
Benghazi Cover-Up

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/29/2012 3:33:28 PM Post Reply

Fox New Channel’s Special Report ran this piece on the Obama administration’s Benghazi Boogaloo, its real time, evolving cover-up in the two weeks after terrorists murdered four Americans at the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. This segment is a must-see. If you have any swing voters or persuadable Democrats in your life, make sure that they see this. It’s devastating. We’re now 18 days past the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on Benghazi. The FBI still has no investigators on the ground there. The Obama administration has done nothing, other than threaten Americans’ free speech rights, to deal with

US forces in the dark about Taliban
infiltration in Afghanistan

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Carlo Munoz Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 3:28:50 PM Post Reply

U.S. and coalition commanders are no closer to knowing how deep the Taliban has penetrated Afghanistan’s security forces despite increased efforts to flush out infiltrators who are carrying out attacks against Americans. "As for what percentage of the insider threat is related to infiltration or radicalization, I mean, it's really difficult to determine," Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey said Thursday. "I'm sure a certain percentage of it is. And we're treating it … as a threat," he told reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon. (Snip) In the most recent incident, two U.S. Marines were

Bailing Out Obamacare:
Sarah Palin Was Right

Power Line, by Steven Hayward Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/29/2012 3:27:03 PM Post Reply

I missed this piece from Steven Rattner (who was a key figure in the Obama auto bailout) when it appeared in the NY Times a couple weeks ago. Tacitly acknowledging that costs are going to soar out of sight, Rattner opens with this frank admission: “We need death panels.” Jonah Goldberg wonders: When can Sarah Palin expect her letter of apology?” Rattner goes on to back away from “death panels,” but instead uses the R-word: rationing. Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently — rationing, by its proper name

Democrats Defend Susan Rice
Amid Call for Her Resignation

ABC News, by Jonathan Karl Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 3:23:59 PM Post Reply

Top Democrats are defending Ambassador Susan Rice after a top House Republican called for her resignation because of questionable statements she made about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Snip) “I believe it was such a failure of foreign policy messaging and leadership, such a misstatement of facts as was known at the time,” King said in an interview on CNN. ”For her to go on all of those shows and, in effect, be our spokesman for the world and be misinforming the American people and our allies and countries around the world – somebody has to

The Untold Story Behind
The "Fast and Furious" Scandal

Univision News/ABC, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: FLyRight- 9/29/2012 2:59:54 PM Post Reply

Who are the human faces of the U.S. government's botched "Fast and Furious" gun-walking operation? Often lost amid the rancor in Washington are the stories of dozens of people killed by guns that flowed south as part of the undercover operation, and later slipped out of view from U.S. officials. Univision's Investigative Unit (Univision Investiga) has identified massacres committed using guns from the ATF operation, including the killing of 16 young people attending a party in a residential area of Ciudad Juárez in January of 2010.

Over 1,000 rally against anti-Islam film in
Dearborn; another protest planned today

Detroit Free Press, by Niraj Warikoo Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 9/29/2012 2:52:24 PM Post Reply

More than 1,000 rallied Friday night in Dearborn against the anti-Islam movie that has sparked protests around the world. Organized by Arab-American leaders, the rally was the third protest in metro Detroit over the movie, the biggest one yet. Another protest against "Innocence of Muslims," the anti-Islam movie made in California that denigrates Islam's prophet, is set for today in Canton. (Snip) Many came with their families to the rally, dressed in Islamic headscarves and robes. Speakers included Muslim leaders, Arab-American activists, a Unitarian minister, U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit), Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Richard Halloran

Algeria at UN: Limit
free speech, protect Islam

Associated Press, by David Stringer Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 9/29/2012 2:48:03 PM Post Reply

UNITED NATIONS — Algeria demanded new efforts Saturday to limit freedom of expression to prevent denigrating attacks on Islam, appealing to the United Nations to take a lead as nations engaged in new debate on the tensions between free speech and religious tolerance. In an address to the General Assembly, Algeria's foreign minister Mourad Medelci called for global action under the auspices of the United Nations to respond to violent demonstrations provoked by a U.S.-produced video that mocks Muslims and the Prophet Muhammad.

Why Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer,
and Truman Capote All Failed
to Write the Great American
Novel

PJ Media, by Bruce Bawer Original Article

Posted By: Mike PHX- 9/29/2012 2:46:37 PM Post Reply

Many commentators have suggested that the passing of Gore Vidal at age eighty-six on July 31 marks the end of a remarkable generation of postwar American novelists the likes of whom we shall never see again. When people speak of that generation of novelists, they are usually referring to exactly three people: Norman Mailer (born in 1923), Truman Capote (1924), and Vidal (1925). All three made splashy literary debuts in the years shortly after the war. All three were not just writers but celebrities.

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